The word "ravishing" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe something that is very attractive or beautiful. For example: "She wore a ravishing red dress to the gala."
In the era of global warming, it has morphed – along with so much of Blackwood's work – into an eco-fable about the ravishing remorselessness of nature.
At other points he layers his components into dance of ravishing complexity.
This music still had its moments of stillness, its climaxes, and its ravishing melodies.
The film was given credit for its ravishing camerawork, lush score and for several powerful scenes, but not one critic gave it the crucial "must-see" that films of its ilk need.
The story ends happily, however, with Cupid marrying the ravishing Psyche, who then becomes the goddess of the soul.
"The English Patient" was arty, but the ravishing photography of "Cold Mountain" powers a romantic story with wide appeal, which might just duplicate its predecessor's exploits come Oscar night.
In some he looms over her sleeping body; in others he is ravishing her.
"ROAD TO NOWHERE", the first feature in more than 20 years from Monte Hellman, a legendary American director, is a ravishing Pirandellian film noir about the making of a film based on a real-life mystery.
Hardwick Hall, another ravishing Elizabethan house in Derbyshire, was sold to the National Trust.
Sitters who were ravishing in life look ravaged in paint, like burn victims.
Ravishing at the age of 65, her expression is shy, pleading and coyly hopeful, her athlete's arms held behind her back like a St Sebastian.As Bruce, Ms Jenner in recent years had been little more than an awkward auxiliary member of the famous-for-being-famous Kardashian clan.
